If Hillary wins two terms, the Harvard-Yale string in the presidency will reach 36 years

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Feb 15, 2013 at 5:05 PM

Conventional political wisdom currently holds that Hillary Clinton is the leading potential candidate for the U.S. presidency in 2016.

And if you consider that four of the last five presidents have served two terms each, Hillary might well be ensconced in the White House until January of 2025. That would make it 36 straight years that we’ve had presidents who attended Yale or Harvard universities — or both.

Barack Obama is a Harvard graduate, as is the Republican who challenged him last year, Mitt Romney.

Obama’s immediate predecessor, George W. Bush, who went to both Yale and Harvard, defeated Harvard grad Al Gore ...

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Pat Cunningham

Conventional political wisdom currently holds that Hillary Clinton is the leading potential candidate for the U.S. presidency in 2016.

And if you consider that four of the last five presidents have served two terms each, Hillary might well be ensconced in the White House until January of 2025. That would make it 36 straight years that we’ve had presidents who attended Yale or Harvard universities — or both.

Barack Obama is a Harvard graduate, as is the Republican who challenged him last year, Mitt Romney.

Obama’s immediate predecessor, George W. Bush, who went to both Yale and Harvard, defeated Harvard grad Al Gore ...